Letter

GIBBONS, “ Box 44, Brooklyn Post Office.” to X. Y, May 16, 1865

[Enclosure.]

Mr. Gibbons to X. Y.

“Dear Sir: Yours of the 13th received, and, in answer, would say that it is the intention of the party to which I am the leader pro tem. to declare war against Great Britain by invading the Canadas. I have 3,000 men now enlisted.

“Respectfully,

GEO. W. GIBBONS, “Box 44, Brooklyn Post Office.”
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.